dberry@sei.cmu.edu (Daniel Berry) (06/12/91)
I am not in the networks area. Hence there are a number of historical questions I have which I cannot easily answer. Please send me either answers or pointers to where the information is published.. 1. Were the first massive non-Xerox-private installations of Ethernet in universities (as opposed to commercial customers)? 2. Regardless of where Ethernet was installed first, did its installation at universities contribute (e.g., as with UNIX) to its commercial success? 3. Did Ethernet connectivity to the Internet influence Ethernet growth? 4. What equipment was used to connect LANs to the Internet's WAN? 5. Was there any particular Ethernet equipment that succeeded primarily because it was able to connect LANs to the Internet's WAN? If so, were the first external installations of this equipment at universities? 6. What is the current size of the Internet and all networks connected to it (any measure, e.g., no of nodes)? Thanks Dan Prof. Daniel M. Berry, Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa 32000 ISRAEL +972-4-294325, DBERRY@TECHSEL.bitnet dberry@cs.technion.ac.il Dr. Daniel M. Berry, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon Institute Pittsburgh, PA 15213, +1-412-268-7778 dberry@sei.cmu.edu FAX:+1-412-268-5758